Biodesign India, to be held from October 7-9 at the Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology & Centre for Bioinformatics at the University of Kerala, India, will be India’s first symposium on synthetic biology. The event will address several strategic issues, including: “how to design organisms from scratch?”, “are we ready for the Computer Aided Design of organisms?”, “can we design stable genetic circuits for useful applications?”, and “have we entered the era of ordering genomes by email?”.

At the conference, the evolving synthetic biology community in India will discuss unique ideas, interest groups, synergies, funding avenues and useful applications. The key goal will be to identify areas where India has potential to take global leadership.